Cameron Highland, Plants for Sale

some plants that is on sale at the Farms and Shopping areas. That all the posts for Cameron Highland for this trip.

Sam Po Temple, Cameron Highland

Sam Po Temple is located in Brinchang, just outside the main town, you have to go through a village to reach it. It the largest and well maintain temple for this area.

One of the 2 Guardian Lion

Entrance Gate

Flowers of Cameron Highlands (Part 4)

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A Strawberry Farm in Cameron Highlands

Strawberry's, Strawberry's, Strawberry's, If you hate Strawberry do not come to Cameron Highlands, Its every where, Fresh Strawberry, Dried Strawberry, Strawberry Juice, Strawberry in Chocolate, Fresh Strawberry with Ice cream, Strawberry Jam and so on, so far I have not seen Strawberry Fritters but then I could be wrong.

There are many "Farms" that concentrate on Strawberry's that will be a good place to visit. We drop by at Healthy Strawberry Farm near the Golf Course / Federal Holiday House. Its open from 7.30am till 7pm, and you can (it seasonal though) pick your own strawberry and purchase and also enjoy there various forms of strawberry.

Here is the entrance, as well as the growing areas (right and left of the entrance) of the farm.

Photo taken with my Trusty Fuji S700 Super Zoom Camera
Auto Setting, Macro Mode (zoom in), crop, and resize.

Some how Strawberry's seem to be sweeter in Cameron Highlands

Tea Plantation, Cameron Highlands

A visit to Cameron Highland should not be complete with out a visit to a tea plantation. In this case it the Cameron Bharat Tea Plantation just before Tanah Rata.

Cameron Highland Flowers (part 3)

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this is a very tiny flower which we found on the road side, its only around 1/2 a cm in diameter

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Cameron Highland 2011

Cameron Highland 2011

One of Cameron Highland Landmark the Tanah Rata Convent School

Cameron Highland, one of the top tourist spot in Malaysia, for both foreign and local holiday makers is well know for it cool weather, quaint British architecture, vegetable growing center, and flower growing center. Having spend some 3 months working at this location some 13 years ago, it’s interesting how Cameron Highland is now much more commercialize, with much touristic base developments, apartments blocks, hotels, tourist shopping center. Has the changes been for the better?

Shop for Durian, Petai, Honey at this Orang Asli stalls

Driving up Via the Tapah - CH Road, there are still the Orang Asli Villages, Orang Asli Stalls selling Petai, Durian, Wild Honey, Bamboo Shoots etc along the side of the road. The Lata Iskandar Waterfall (separate post) is still there and is popular rest stop, with souvenir stalls, malay makan warongs, and a toilet for those who consume a bit too much water. The Road itself, not much difference it still cool, with much tree cover (like driving in a tunnel) narrow, sharp and blind bends, but with much things to observe.

Accommodation

Even Ringlet (what use to be a sleepy vegetable growing hollow) is now a busy commercial center, with Blocks of Apartment! At Tanah Rata, The Convent School is still there, but now surrounded by apartments, housing, shops. Now there are more hotels and apartments for daily rental for Tourist Accommodation. Restaurants (western & local), Mamaks, Malay Warungs are everwhere, there is even a Starbucks in Tanah Rata, However the few chinese kopi tiam that was around seems to have vanish.

(Finally manage to find a Chicken Rice/Bak Kut Teh Stall in a Chinese Restaurant somewhere behind Tanah Rata Maybank, near a big abandoned complex (near Park View Apartment?) for my Lunch)

Driving further up, near the Golf Course, I chance upon the Federal Government Holiday House, which is beside a Strawberry Farm. Those day 13 years ago, these farms were open air (I think) now, most of this farms seem to be cover up.

Federal Holiday House

Traffic has increase tremendously, in Ringlet, Tanah Rata, Brinchang the main Cameron Highland Towns. Even this day, a Non Peak, non school holiday, non public holiday & weekday. Parking is a premium, you can still find places though if you look hard enough or just circle around. I just wonder about Traffic and Parking in Town during the Peak Periods.

As mention earlier, Numerous Tourist Shopping Centers abound, most of them along the Main Road Some call them self Strawberry Farms (Self Picking), rose garden, cactus farms and so on. Now flowers are sold in Pots, (not in individual stocks as in 13 yrs ago). It’s all very touristic shopping.

Shopping

More Shopping

Even More Shopping

Shopping ! I think you get the Picture!

Interesting Plants to Purchase
In this Case a Plant that drive a way Mosquitoes!

Interior of a Cactus Shopping Center

Kea Farm, with its shops and new Hotel!

More shop at Kea Farm

Kea Farm (the Highest Point along the main road?) is the place for purchasing local produce, vegetables (now most of them come prepack like in supermarkets), and other stuffs. There are also the Corn on the Cob (Steam and BBQ), Fried Vegetable (Mushrooms) etc. It seems to me 13 years ago there were a larger verity of vegetables then, however the verity of Flowers (separate post) have increase.

Local Fried Vegetable! at Kea Farm

Steam and BBQ Corn

Equatorial Hotel, Kea Farm, Brinchang, Cameron Highland

Even Kea Farm have Apartment Block now!